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Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for Wednesday, November 11th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

A deep dive into why a statue of an 18th century feminist writer has caused a stir in England.

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A new statue of early feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft has just been unveiled at the Newington Green Park in North London, and it's caused a bit of a stir.

In case you're unfamiliar, because that's part of the point of this statue is that many people are unfamiliar with her,

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the

seminal, A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, a text which was fairly derided for some

time, in part due to Wollstonecraft's maligned reputation, but was eventually welcomed as a founding

text of feminism by suffragettes around the turn of the 20th century.

For some, she's best known as being the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.

Unfortunately, the mother of sci-fi was not raised by the mother of feminism because the elder Mary

Wollstonecraft died in childbirth with baby Mary. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was raised by her

similarly radical father, William Godwin, and would later marry poet Percy Beis Shelly.

So Wollstonecraft made a huge impact on women and on feminism and is wholly deserving of a statue.

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